c 1820 Koran Ottoman (3)

This is a leaf from a fragment of an illuminated Koran, India, Kashmir, circa 1820 on burnished paper (155 x 95 mm.). There are seventeen lines (17) of elegant naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black and red; catchwords in black ink are on every page, gold disks are between verses and Sura headings are in handsome thuluth script in blue ink on a gold ground. Marginal devices are typical of Kashmir produced Korans. Verso: seventeen lines of elegant naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black and red.